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Tom keeps Soil Benchmark pointed in the right direction - and will probably be your first port of call if you want to know what we do. He leads on sales, strategy and partnerships - i.e. all the non-technical stuff - and spends a big chunk of his time talking to agronomists and farmers, hoovering up feedback and turning it into clear problem statements for the team to solve. A recovering accountant, Tom grew up on a small farm in North Yorkshire and was a 2024 Nuffield Scholar researching Why Farmers Change.

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Ben is our resident soil scientist and co-founded Soil Benchmark with Tom fresh from the James Hutton Institute. He leads the technical team and steers product direction, making sure everything is grounded in proper science while still being quick and painless to use in the real world. If there’s a tricky soil question, Ben’s your man. When he’s not thinking about soil structure, he’s usually to be found on his road bike on a damp Irish mountain-side competing in a triathlon.

Henry leads our technical architecture - the behind-the-scenes bits that keep the platform fast, reliable and scalable (especially needed now we are throwing more than a million hectares worth of data at it). He was our first employee back in 2023 and has grown with the business to now be our CTO. Henry’s also passionate about sustainable software and helps run Code Green - if you’re into greener coding, you should head along to their next meetup.

Sabrina is a senior dev who’s risen through the ranks since joining in 2024. She previously worked as an NHS doctor, then decided to swap fixing patients for fixing code (slightly fewer night shifts). She’s a key force behind our nutrient tools - and seems to have swallowed RB209 in the process. Sabrina’s brilliant at turning gnarly rules and edge-cases into clean, usable workflows. Most weekends currently involve DIY on her new house.

Richard is our geospatial and data wizard (and the person who stops our databases turning into compost). He brings deep mapping experience from Ordnance Survey - where we actually worked with him for a year before he joined full-time in 2025 - and he’s helped build the bones of our latest product, Crop Rex. If it’s on a map, Richard will be all over it.

Saachi brings serious dev firepower - and an unusually good eye for design to match. One of the newest members of the team (joining in early 2026), she’s already shipped brilliant new features and is a big part of reworking the look and feel of the platform to make it as intuitive as possible. If something suddenly looks nicer and works better, we’ve probably got Saachi to thank for it. Comes from a family of coders, so you could say it runs in the source code.

Amalia is our other newest recruit and a full-stack dev with a particular flair for the backend - the plumbing that keeps everything running smoothly. She’s got a strong engineering background and loves quietly solving the hard problems in the engine room: fast code, tidy systems, fewer headaches. She grew up in Romania with two enormous shepherd dogs, so is pretty hard to faze.

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Pudding is Tom's dog and the newest (and fluffiest) member of the team. She's regularly in the office and at events with us - you'll usually find her lying in front of our stand at Cereals and Groundswell - and when she's not greeting visitors she supervises the developers from under the desk. Specialist subjects: soil sampling (mostly digging) and quality-checking lunch. Come and say hello at our next event.